Directory Listings Have you ever come across this term? Have you ever wondered about its benefits? Do you know that hosting a genuine directory listing can be a great revenue source for you?
What is a Directory Listing?
A directory listing is a type of Web page that lists files and directories that exist on a Web server.
The key divergence between a search engine and a web directory is that a search engine spiders the Internet to look for new available web pages and then indexes those links according to the relevance it attaches to those links. Unlike in a web directory, you can submit your links manually under a suitable category. Then those links are re-examined by human editors and accepted or rejected according to what they think of your link.
The easiest example of a directory listing is the Joomla Extension Directory (JED) itself. It works on the principles stated above. JED allows you to list all the Open Source products for Joomla.
Benefits of Directory listings
Web directories hire or take assistance from trained and experienced reviewers who evaluate the submitted links genuinely and then publish them on their online yellow pages.
Search engines voraciously consume the information from these web directories as the links over there are already formalized. On any given day, human-reviewed links are far more trustworthy than software-reviewed links.
You can also own a Web Directory and earn from it.
Web Directories are something, like the online option for window shopping, where a potential investor can accumulate valuable links and resources in a single place. With PayPlans, directory owners can charge for hosting the listings on their valuable Web Directory.
PayPlans is successfully integrated into the popular directory listing components in Joomla.
ZOO
Zoo is one of the most used components in Joomla. PayPlans has very tight integration with all of the Zoo elements. One such element is their Business Directory.
SobiPro
SobiPro is another directory listing component in Joomla that is tagged as popular in JED. Its major user selling point (USP) is that the users can search, filter and view the contents depending on Joomla! user groups.
Mosets Tree
The most striking feature of Moset Tree is that it is used on JED itself to create the listing directory. It has been built with customizability in mind. You can have text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns or many other field types in your listing submission form.
JReview
JReviews is a powerful Joomla directory for building media-rich review sites, business directories, services directories, product catalogs, classifieds and any other application you can imagine.